Very rare EK3

[streptile]

I'm not sure he wasn't also playing along. I just wanted to be clear to anyone reading but not posting...

[Kraal]

Awesome one Trevor

[pzrwest]

Hmmm that's twice I was almost taken for a ride down the gulable road.... last week a guy tried to sell me a bridge but I was smart enough to not be ripped off..... LOL

[Elmar Lang]

Hello,

in my opinion, what we've considered until today as the "Prinzengröße" of the EK-2, actually is the 3rd class.

Orders and decorations, usually differentiated their classes after the size.

Je größer, je lieber!...

E.L.

[avensis2000]

I have original EK4 which was awarded to Rittmerister Haupsturmführer Obersatzer Corporal Wilhelm Friedrich Ludwig in 1808, when he found his grandfather in haybarn (august 1807) giving mouth-to-mouth reviving for a passed out maid of the stables after a sudden attack of illness.

According to hear speech, appereance of this maid called "Emmanuelle" at the premises was ultra-secret because she was cousin of France's king's aunt, teaching french military command language to warhorse called "Eugenius" as a summer job. Due to Wilhelm's grandfather's plead to Wilhelm to keep this incident as "his own information", he was awarded this cross a year later as an ultimate reward of loyalness, which was first and last known award of this type.

I never had heard about this award before the seller revealed the story behind it to me and I think he was a bit stupid to sell it with such a low price compared to rarity of this award. The coolest thing in this cross in my opinion is the pink laurel wreath underneath the cross which is either brass or colored tin.

[mp409mm]

I'm in the presence of giants. And Trevor is their king.

Agree

Alf.